On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:18 pm, Klaus Neumann wrote: > -------Original Message------- > > Klaus writes: > > It looks like this: > > domain whidbey.net > > search mail.whidbey.net whidbey.net > > nameserver 209.166.65.1 > > nameserver 209.166.64.3 > > > > Anything wrong here? > > The 'domain' line is useless. The 'search' line overrides it. It is very > unlikely that you need it anyway, though, so take it out. > > Done. > > The 'search' > line probably does no damage (other than to waste some time), but it almost > certainly is useless and was put there by someone who does not understand > its purpose. Take it out. Man resolv.conf. > The ip's appear to be whidbey's nameservers.
check /etc/host.conf. it should look like this: order hosts,bind multi on btw, dropping the whiny attitude towards man pages, and to those who direct you to them, will greatly enhance your ability to understand your system.
